Absence Management Software The top 11 reasons why our clients have purchased Activ Absence Control as their Absence Management Software solution

1. Simplify holiday planning process
2. Minimise costs of planned and unplanned absence
3. Allow staff to self service holiday requests
4. High visibility of team, department or company absence
5. Make informed decisions around absences to minimise disruption to business
6. Immediate notification of unauthorised leave by email/text to team leaders, line management or senior management
7. Monitor staff absence rates by identifying trends in absences using Bradford Factor.
8. Establish, manage and enforce rules and policies for any form of absence
9. Immediate access to information stored centrally not isolated spreadsheets
10. Easily configurable to your business processes booking and recording absence
11. Synchronises with your personal calendar

Maximise productivity.	Cut costs.
Save time.	Enable more effective planning.

By giving all your employees an easy to use on-line method of requesting leave, and by automatically calculating holiday allowances your managers can confirm or deny all requests with a simple click...

No more confusion over allowances.	No more calendar clashes.
No more time wasting.	No more paper forms!

By recording ALL absences, planned or unplanned, Activ will give you a simple, single calendar view of each employee's availability, wherever they may work within your organisation. In turn, this gives all the information you need to utilise your human resources efficiently and plan more effectively

Employee Benefits

Holiday booking in three easy steps

Request leave and seek approval for any time out of the office.	Plan your holiday easily in line with your department or team commitments.
View the status of your holiday bookings and other requests.	Easy access to your annual leave entitlement, days taken and records of any sickness.
Bookings can be updated in your calendar in Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, or web calendar and mobile devices.	Quick and easy access via PC or Mac, 365 days of the year, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Carry-over any unused days at your year-end, if permitted.	Record overtime and time off in lieu, if permitted.
Quickly see who is currently on leave.	No training required.

By using Activ Absence Control every employee knows that their own absence is being recorded. In itself this is often enough to reduce the number of days lost ...resulting in immediate reduction of costs to the company. However by also keeping easily understood records of ALL absences, managers can readily identify and address issues with any individual employee or compare sickness levels across the organisation.

Easy to access and simple to use, Activ Absence Control means that everyone can quickly see the benefits and the simple holiday booking process and clear, overall vision of total staff availability results in improved management, and reduced stress levels!

Line Manager Benefits

Monitor, analyse and control all absences

Make informed decisions on staff holiday and absence requests with up to date information to hand.	Approve or reject holiday requests or forward them to director level for final authorization.
Record staff sickness and unplanned absence on behalf of employees.	Receive updates immediately and view your department or team absences.
Easy to configure trigger points that highlight issues with absenteeism that require your immediate action and support.	Easy to configure trigger points that highlight issues with absenteeism that require your immediate action and support.
Get a clear overview of staff resource availability to plan effectively for all absences in the company, department or team calendar.	Receive alerts and generate reports on absence levels.

Reduce absenteeism and save administration time through improved absence management

Empower line managers to effectively manage holiday bookings, approvals, rejections and absence recording.	Reduce administration burden that HR have in processing leave requests and calculating annual allowances.
Use the built in Bradford Factor to monitor staff absenteeism rates.	Absence policies can be easily introduced and communicated across the business.
New, leaving or job changes can be catered for with minimal effort giving you the flexibility required.	One of the most important processes can be automated with return to work interviews triggered automatically and enforced.
Analysis trends in absence to indentify personal and work related causes.	Reduce HR time spent micro managing holiday and unplanned absence processes.

To find out more visit the Activ Absence Control mini-site at http://www.activabsence.co.uk